On Tuesday 17 February, the European Commissioner for Defence, Andrius Kubilius, called on the Council of the EU and the European Parliament to make progress in discussions on the military mobility package presented by the European Commission last November (see EUROPE B13755A1). In an own-initiative report from December, the European Parliament had already supported the European Commission’s idea of a ‘military Schengen’ (see EUROPE B13775A17).
“The first negotiations between...